'There's a dog in the New Zealand section'

Episode 6 of "Flight of the Conchords" was, for the first 20-odd minutes (or possibly 20 odd minutes), a morality tale about looking past superficial differences among people, before a twist at the end that unravels the whole lesson.

A fruit vendor, with dark skin suggesting Middle Eastern or Indian origins, refuses to sell his wares to Bret or Jemaine, telling them, "I don't serve your kind here" and, later, directing them to the "New Zealand section" of his stand, where a dog is picking through rotting fruit. A series of xenophobic tauntings results, along with a brilliant gangsta parody, "Mutha Uckas," in which the lads edit themselves as they complain about "too many mutha uckas/Uckin' with my shi-."

In keeping with the morality angle, manager Murray lends Bret and Jemaine a video tape of TV programs his mum recorded in New Zealand. One of them, a surreal stop-motion puppet TV show called "Albi the Racist Dragon," makes the pair cry when Albi realizes the error of his racist ways. So, so strange.

Speaking of Murray, he's the subject of this epsisode's subplot when he falls in love with the tech support woman installing new computers at the Consulate where he works. His clumsy attempts to woo her fail when she finishes her assignment and leaves, leading to Murray's turn on the microphone. Check it out: